Should I worry about my daughters stutter?

My daughter would mix up words talking too fast because she was excited. I would tell her to slow down, take a breath and start again slower.

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So id reccomend watching on youtube school for stutterers. The progress those people make is just
amazing. some of them couldnt even say their own name but by the end of the little course they was speaking with confidence an barley a stutter. Highly reccomendation it it was really insightful.

Yes. My daughter was reading the readers digest at 4 years old. When she would share with me what she read, she would stuffer a little. Usually it was when she would get excited and try to tell me the story too fast. She did grow out of it.

Tell her to slow down and take her time my son grew out of it

Refer to a Speech and Language Therapist / Pathologist. Please don’t take advice unqualified people online & don’t ignore if you are concerned.

P.S - Please, please DO NOT tell your child to slow down, start again, take a breath etc.

Advice & support can be found via the link below (stamma.org)
Help If Your Child Stammers | STAMMA

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My second son and my daughter stutters when they get frustrated or excited, it’s cute lol but they are slowly growing out of it. My son is 7 and daughter 5. Also their father stutters when he gets mad, frustrated, excited so that’s where they get it from. I also stutter a little when I talk to fast lol but I wouldn’t worry about it too much unless it gets worse. It is very common.

My four year old was stuttering she would do it if she is trying to fast but she doesn’t do it anymore.

I would wait until she’s a bit older and if she still does it then book an appointment with a speech therapist see what they say

My son was 2 when he fell
And started
stuttering. It took him several months but came out of it with no side effects.

She will all probability grow out of this

I had a stutter as a kid that started when I first went to school. I saw speech pathologist which helped. Went away and only came out when I had to present in front of others and was nervous, so saw a speechie again. Now only comes out when I’m very tired, but others say they don’t notice :blush:

I wouldn’t worry at all. Just be patient in those times and let her get the words out on her own without interrupting her. It’s very common and normal. Especially for a 2 year old speaking in long full sentences.

I still do this at times, stuttering or repeating word over a couple of times
 (tired could be a trigger also) I have to tell myself to stop and think about what I am trying to say
. she may just end up being someone who speaks fast and her mouth/brain struggles to keep up with what she is trying to say, is for me.

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I have a 7 year old boy who has had to have a lot of speach therapy to help. It started small but got a whole lot worse. He still stutters but it’s only noticeable to us. He had a huge vocabulary at a young age. Therapist said he was 18 mths ahead of his peers with vocabulary and had so much to say but struggled to get it out. Get her to repeat it back and ask her to say it slower. You need to get her to notice when she’s doing it and then take it slower

Stuttering in children 3 and under is very common. Stuttering is less likely to persist in girls. Look at the type of stutter. Is she repeating whole words and phrases ? Or is it the sound at the beginning of words ? That’s something to keep an eye on. You can always contact the local school district and asked to be evaluated. 90% of children outgrow their stutter.

I used to stutter, the brain is thinking faster then she can speak. When she starts tell her to take a deep breathe and say it slowly

My son had a stammer. It just seemed to appear over night when he was 3! He saw a speech therapist but soon grew out of it. It lasted just short of a couple of years.

:person_raising_hand: My two and half year old guy (at the time) did it. His pediatrician was not concerned unless it happened beyond 6 months. After that he would be referred to a speech therapist. It has gotten much better. It happens when he excited. Also
 Don’t draw any attention to it. It’s his brain working intensely.

This happened to me when I was little. I used to have to jump up and down to get my words out. But my mom told me that I couldn’t jump anymore because other kids would make fun of me. Before that, I was never embarrassed about it and didn’t noticed it. In my 3 year old mind, “If I couldn’t jump to speak, what can I do?” I became more quiet and shy because I was soooooooo afraid that people would make fun of me, which turned into stage fright. I used to HATE when we had to read aloud in class because I would get so nervous about stuttering, that I felt like I was having an anxiety attack. When it was my turn, I would freeze up and try so hard to speak but all I could make was like a crock if frog noise. I learned overtime that I had to take a second to breathe, calm myself down & think about what I wanted to say. My mom didn’t help me with it, I had to figure it out on my own (which was almost into adulthood). I overcame my stutter but it still comes up every now & again. I suggest teaching her to calm herself down first and practice reading aloud.

I would take her to a specialist because it is much easier to correct when u first notice and they are young.

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My son was the exact same. When he started Kindergarten he went to speech therapy and with in a couple months he stopped.

She’s still young and trying to piece words together correctly I wouldn’t stress too much yet mama. She seems very intelligent and advanced for her age. She may grow out of it.

My son had a bad stutter for about a year about a half. We had plans to start speech therapy, but then covid happened. In that time, he stopped stuttering.

I think you should go to speech therapist specializing in this to avoid an option of this being a permanent impairment ; what’s the downside ?

My son stuttered at that age and grew out if it.